Main Street

  1. the principal street of any small town
  2. the typical inhabitants of a small town, regarded as provincial and conservative

See Main Street in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
  1. The principal street of a small town.
  2. Main Street
    a. Average businesses and households considered as a group.
    b. The inhabitants of small American towns considered as having a narrow-minded or materialistic worldview.

Origin:

Origin: Sense 2b, after Main Street, a novel by Sinclair Lewis

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